<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Below is a summary of media hits from a quick report our intern put together from at TAA data readily available on the Labor Department website. We used the report to add pressure on our main House and Senate targets on the TRADE Act. The link to our press release and the report itself is: <a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/orftc-release062910.php">http://www.citizenstrade.org/orftc-release062910.php</a> <div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Arthur Stamoulis</div><div>Oregon Fair Trade Campaign</div><div>(503) 736-9777</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span>
<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Job Loss Report Media Summary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">June/July 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Workers Rally Against Free
Trade at Blue Heron,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Oregon City News</i>,
July 7, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=127844577785782000">http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=127844577785782000</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The
bankruptcy-plagued Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City again became a
flashpoint for frustration as displaced workers and union leaders gathered
there last week to release a new study about the effect of free-trade
agreements on Oregon's high unemployment rate. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">Arguing that
trade-related job loss accounted for a significant portion of Oregon’s ongoing
unemployment problem, they touted statistics showing that last year was
unprecedented in Oregon for trade job losses. U.S. Labor Department figures
showed losses more than 300 percent above average.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">“Labor leaders call for reforms,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Register Guard</i>, July 7, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/24993689-41/trade-labor-oregon-jobs-springfield.csp">http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/24993689-41/trade-labor-oregon-jobs-springfield.csp</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Local labor leaders and displaced workers called
for trade and immigration reform at a press conference in Springfield on Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“I think that people are feeling
urgency about adopting real solutions to address our economic situation,” said
Samantha Chirillo, Lane County organizer with the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">“How safe is your job?,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Gazette Times</i>, July 3, 2010</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_6fe2b098-8738-11df-a496-001cc4c002e0.html"></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_6fe2b098-8738-11df-a496-001cc4c002e0.html">http://gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_6fe2b098-8738-11df-a496-001cc4c002e0.html</a>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Until recently, Mitch Besser had a good job as a
software engineer, pulling down close to $90,000 a year at International Game
Technology in Corvallis. Now he's wondering where his next paycheck is coming
from.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">IGT,
a slot machine manufacturer and provider of casino software, shut down its
Corvallis site last week, eliminating 57 local jobs. And while some employees
were able to relocate to the company's Las Vegas office, most of those jobs
have disappeared for good - at least in this country.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">“How safe is your job?,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Democratic Herald</i>, July 3, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_f8b5f954-8736-11df-ae9b-001cc4c002e0.html">http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_f8b5f954-8736-11df-ae9b-001cc4c002e0.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Outsourcing American jobs overseas has been a
familiar story since NAFTA opened the free trade floodgates in 1994.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But now there's a new twist: Instead of
just exporting unskilled factory jobs to low-wage countries, an increasing
number of U.S. companies are cutting costs by giving highly skilled technical
positions to foreign workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Oregon Group Advocates for
Fair Trade,” KEZI-TV, July 6, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://kezi.com/news/local/180386"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1F50A9">http://kezi.com/news/local/180386</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">A local trade and immigration reform group says
more than 25 percent of Oregon's job losses are trade-related. The Lane County
Labor Council voiced their concerns Tuesday. Ed Gunderson is one example of
what the group says is wrong with the current system. He lost a job he held for
25 years when the company he worked for moved to Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Union Members Rally Outside
Oregon City Paper Mill,” OPB, June 29, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u style="text-underline:#1F50A9"><span style="font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1F50A9"><a href="http://news.opb.org/article/7733-union-members-rally-outside-oregon-city-paper-mill/">http://news.opb.org/article/7733-union-members-rally-outside-oregon-city-paper-mill/</a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">Union members rallied outside the
Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City Tuesday. As Kristian Foden-Vencil reports,
they say trade agreements are compounding the state's unemployment problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Fair Trade,” Jefferson
Exchange, July 7, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.ijpr.org/OnlineAudioComments.asp?OnlineAudioID=4911">http://www.ijpr.org/OnlineAudioComments.asp?OnlineAudioID=4911</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"">Is
"free trade" the same thing as "fair trade"? Plenty
of people feel that free trade hurts American workers. Fair trade,
immigration, and food security: these three issues are intertwined and the <a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/oregon.php"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Oregon Fair Trade Campaign</span></a>
is on a mission to raise public awareness through discussions, public forums,
and policy changes. </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Stop sending jobs
overseas,” Portland IMC, June 29, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/400722.shtml">http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/06/400722.shtml</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">On June 29, 2010, displaced workers, union leaders and fair trade
advocates gathered outside the Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City to release
a new study about the affect of trade-related job loss on Oregon's high
unemployment rate. 2009 was an unprecedented year in Oregon for trade-related
job losses certified by the U.S. Labor Department -- more than 300% higher than
usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Record Trade-Related Job
Losses Hit Oregon,” KBOO Evening news, June 29, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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